so improbable as this. A sort of awe possessed me; for

to the crest and getting snugly fixed in the rifle-pits, my attention

was called to our left, the high ground we occupied affording me in

that direction an unobstructed view. I then saw General A. McD.

McCook's corps--the First-advancing toward Chaplin River by the

Mackville road, apparently unconscious that the Confederates were

present in force behind the stream. I tried by the use of signal

flags to get information of the situation to these troops, but my

efforts failed, and the leading regiments seemed to approach the